THE NEW DECALOGUE OP SCIENCE

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Ms nostrils, we are informed that lie was told with
equally divine authentication that every animal, in-
cluding him, would inevitably beget, each after its
own kind. It seems, upon this basis, that every
descendant of the original man would have had as
much of this spirit as his first forebear. It is as
difficult as evolution itself to explain how this
original endowment got split up into such diverse
proportions among the children and grandchildren
of the primeval pair. Some direct descendants have
received so little of this original intelligence that
they can scarcely run a go-cart, while others with
greater ease and less effort can run an empire. This
would have been obviously impossible had man be-
gotten exactly after his own kind. You and I would
have had as much intelligence, personality and wis-
dom as Adam — no more and no less. Either some-
thing has gone wrong with the reproductive pro-
cesses of the human race since the interesting day
when Adam suddenly appeared, or else Adam did
not appear quite so suddenly as is postulated, and
when he did appear he was a hybrid.
By the word hybrid I mean that he had in him
various sorts of qualities or characters, in varying
degrees got from diverse ancestors and he has, by
the simple laws of heredity now well understood,
transmitted them in varying degrees to varying
descendants. This is one line of evidence which
leads the biologist to believe that man is a product
of a world of evolution, and thus a protoplasmic
brother to all living things. Variation and natural
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